Al Bundy Bulldog

Ostrander is a solid coach and has been mentioned but word is his wife is from Hattiesburg and they have 2 teenaged daughters who are in HS and not looking to move.

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Don’t hire the interim coach

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We didn’t after Andy Cannizzaro was fired and his interim took us to the CWS. No chance we do now.

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Mississippi state should reach out to Butch Thompson first. He is from Mississippi and was the pitching coach there. The only thing that would probably prevent him from going is Cohen is his current AD at Auburn. Butch would be a home run hire for Ms. State.

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Butch is a solid HC but doesn’t seem very high on the early lists of hot boards. A more popular name is Duke HC Chris Pollard and ECU hc Cliff Godwin

A lot of State fans want an outside of the box HC that can really recruit and develop. That tended to be the downfall for Lemonis. He didn’t use the natty to boost recruiting and sucked in the portal.

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Your AD is dumb if they don’t try to throw everything at Wes Johnson

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Word is his buyout is extremely high and he’s waiting to take the Arkansas job when Van Horn retires.

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First question I would ask if contacted by MS State would be centered around what type of NIL commitment, plans, etc they have specifically towards baseball. Facilities and traditions are great but if you are at a recruiting/NIL disadvantage compared to the rest of the league, winning becomes really difficult. And, that seems to be the case with State across most sports.

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Well we just had 11 players drafted off last years team including a 1st and 2nd rounder. We have put a number of players in the majors in recent years. I don’t think nil or recruiting players to State will be an issue. We just need an ALPHA type head coach who can win close games.

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Are we getting a decent contributor, State fans?

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Some games he might score 17 and get 10 boards others he will score 5 and get 4 and stay in foul trouble. Im curious to how he will react to tough coaching from Pearl, supposedly he butted heads with Jans a few times. He was benched in 2023 and almost left the team at the end of that season.

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That's why I make mine Alp

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Ive yet to see this sold anywhere in Mississippi between Jackson to Gulfport

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Dedan played in the Mountain West man. That whole league has a pulse

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The upper half really does, but the bottom 4/5 teams are horrible Air Force, Wyoming, Fresno st., San Jose St. I think 3/4 of those only had single digit wins.

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Josh Elander from Tennessee.

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This guy checks all the boxes

Good rebounder and shot blocker athletic kid. Just not much offense skills wise. He'd play about the first 5 minutes of each half then we would put in Murphy at the 5 and he'd rotate in if there was found trouble or if we went with 2 bigs.